Clear Day

Clear day

You appear out of foggy skies

As I wrestle to throw back the night

And darkness

The blindness that descends

Not so much with sleep

But with loss of consciousness

Which obliterates

The light of reason

Never entirely bad

In every season

Oh how my heart sings with joy

When sun emerges from behind clouds

As baby calf is pulled from groaning mother

As new life emerges from the husks of that past

That held me captive so many years

So many fears

I am now shedding

Which I use now

As stepping stones

To walk forward upon

In the light of a clear morning

Released from darkness

Released from unconsciousness

Released from sleep

I rouse myself to the light

And seek my solace under clear skies

Drowned in the warm love

Of the sun’s rays

This oh so silent

Most healing

Of benedictions